Conversations with Raymond Carver

This collection of Raymond Carver's interviews reveals him to have been perhaps the premier short-story writer of his generation, a lyric-narrative poet of singular resonance, and a staunch proponent of realistic fiction in the wake of postmodern formalism. The twenty-five conversations gathered here, several available in English for the first time, include craft interview...

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This collection of Raymond Carver's interviews reveals him to have been perhaps the premier short-story writer of his generation, a lyric-narrative poet of singular resonance, and a staunch proponent of realistic fiction in the wake of postmodern formalism. The twenty-five conversations gathered here, several available in English for the first time, include craft interviews, biographical portraits, self-analyses, and wide-ranging reflections on the current literary scene.

Carver discusses his changing views of his widely influential fiction collections What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (1981), Cathedral (1983), and Where I'm Calling From (1988). Carver explains how at the height of his fame as a fiction writer he turned to poetry, producing three prize-winning books in as many years. Finally, in the closing months of his life, he talks about the coming of his last triumphant stories, the ones that secured his reputation.

Accolade-winning author returns to Humboldt / Cassandra Phillips --
Echoes of our own lives / David Koehne --
Raymond Carver speaking / Robert Pope and Lisa McElhinny --
Raymond Carver : no shortcuts to a good story / Jim Spencer --
As Raymond Carver muses, his stature grows / Jim Naughton --
Raymond Carver / Mona Simpson and Lewis Buzbee --
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Accolade-winning author returns to Humboldt / Cassandra Phillips --
Echoes of our own lives / David Koehne --
Raymond Carver speaking / Robert Pope and Lisa McElhinny --
Raymond Carver : no shortcuts to a good story / Jim Spencer --
As Raymond Carver muses, his stature grows / Jim Naughton --
Raymond Carver / Mona Simpson and Lewis Buzbee --
Ray Carver : keeping it short / Kay Bonetti --
Raymond Carver / Michiko Miyamoto --
A voice from the wasteland / Patricia Morrisroe --
"Any good writer uses his imagination to convince the reader" / Hansmaarten Tromp --
Raymond Carver : a chronicler of blue-collar despair / Bruce Weber --
An interview with Raymond Carver / Larry McCaffery and Sinda Gregory --
Poetry, poverty and realism down in Carver country / Gordon Burn --
David Sexton talkes to Raymond Carver / David Sexton --
Raymond Carver / Nicholas O'Connell --
What we talk about when we talk about literature : an interview with Raymond Carver / John Alton --
Carver's world / Roxanne Lawler --
Matters of life and death / William L. Stull --
De Minimis : Raymond Carver and his world / Francesco Durante --
A conversation / Kasia Boddy --
Fiction & America : Raymond Carver / David Applefield. After the fire, into the fire : an interview with Raymond Carver / Michael Schumacher --
PW interviews Raymond Carver / Penelope Moffet --
Raymond Carver : darkness dominates his books, not his life / Gail Caldwell --
"I've got a book to finish, I'm a lucky man" / Gianni Riotta.
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